On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Alex Miller wrote:
> I am attempting the RPM install since I can't figure out why my SMTP host
> isn't working when I installed QMail and Uninstalled sendmail.
>
> There are 2 parts of the first step which are confusing.
>
> "b) Make sure that the shadow-utils (see the qmail spec file for what
> version is needed) because the qmail rpm's installation uses it. The bind
> utils package is needed by the tcpserver-initscripts rpm's installation."
>
> What is being asked here? Are they asking if I completed the previous step
> to install the functions rpm? What bind utils package?
Run 'rpm -q shadow-utils'.
That tells you the version of shadow-utils you have installed. Similarly,
'rpm -q bind-utils' tells you what version bind-utils you have installed.
> "c) If the machine you are installing is a NIS client machine but not a
> server, you need to stop ypbind and remove the file corresponding to the nis
> domain in /var/yp/binding. I just do
>
> rm -f /var/yp/binding/*"
>
> ok, I do have that directory. But how do I know wether or not I'm an NIS
> server?
If you don't know what this is, the answer is that you're not.
